Saturday, January 26, 2008

Froshin uses live models and makes them abstract their bodies to create works with curious movement. I wish I could post some of her yellow paintings, but this one was all I could find online. Love the strips.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Saturday, January 19, 2008

I go through so many auction catalogues and rarely do I have time to stop and gaze at an image...but this one struck my fancy. Makes me want to nap, babysit, listen to old time records and try using my watercolor set. Apparently I'm not the only one interested in Schiele's auction pieces.

Friday, January 18, 2008

My love for bears has grown since the birth of Germany's new polar cubs. If you, too, are overwhelmed with delight when it comes to bears, then perhaps you would like to watch one of these videos. Don't forget pandas now (both red and regular)! One of many of my favorite panda cams can be found here.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Today's featured artist, Xavier Veilhan, shines a new light on multi-media and French contemporary art. It appears that has dipped into nearly every kind of art-making imaginable. This photograph caught my eye in particular because I am obsessed with bear suits.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Tonight is the U.S. premiere ofJonny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver for string orchestra. "You can forget, if you spend too long away from actually hearing an orchestra play, but it’s a magical world, and it’s like no other sound on the planet really.” More in a NYTimes article here.

With all the new families being started these days, I want to get into the quilting scene so I can give awesome gifts to little ones. My blanket has been with me for over 25 years now and so I know the impact that some colored cloth can have on a kid. But once I started getting interested in quilting patterns, I became wildly intimidated; there are some tough ones out there! Then I remembered an amazing show I saw at the Corcoran called, "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" and promptly regained my inspiration. After some research on their website, I was tickled by their approach to naming their pieces of art:"Gee’s Benders have coined their own terms for common quilt patterns. They call the Roman Stripes or Fence Rail pattern a "Crazy" quilt (no relation to the Crazy quilts made with irregular scraps)."

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Richard Prince is not that funny. As a joker myself, my curiosity called when I saw he was putting other people's jokes on a canvas and selling them for piles of money. But he takes appropriation to levels so high, the scale has exploded. While I found the Nurse series darkly amusing, I was so horrified with his Willem DeKooning "collaborations" that I can't seem to find a place to put Prince. For now, I'm placing him in the back of an empty comedy club in Hollywood and telling him to order something from Fat Burger. Maybe then he'll take himself a little less seriously? I bet he's friends with similar "pull the rug out from under you" artist Wolfgang Tillmans. Yikes.